If I bought a vinyl album 20 years ago, do I have the right to have those songs?
You always have the right to have those (and any other) songs in Canada. For your own use and as long as you don't redistribute them.
All Canadians have already been tried, found guilty and sentenced for copyright infringement. We've been paying a levy on blank CDs and tapes for years, thanks to CRIA. They've also tried to impose their levy scheme on ISP fees and DVDs and more, but thankfully failed. Anyway, CRIA drew first blood, but we have the right to download as much as we want.
Their latest antics just prove they want to have their cake and eat ours too. Screw em.
Yes, it is bundled - a Windows front end for Gemstar's Guide+. It's somewhat integrated with the rest of the ATI sw, called Multimedia Center.
It has a preview pane, can click-to-schedule for watching or recording, slices and dices program info like a data mart, etc. The app logs itself in to Gemstar, so the user doesn't have to do anything beyond opening it.
I don't see the actual card on the ATI site anymore, but there seems to be plenty of similar (but newer) ones. Mine's an All-In-Wonder Radeon from about 4 or 5 years ago.
The Multimedia Center includes DVD/CD/File players. The TV app schedules recording, file playing, watching.
So cool: It can scan all available channels and show them all on-screen in a mosaic of postage-stamp sized captured frames updating continuously. (patented by ATI, I think). Click on one once and it comes to life in place, playing that channel live with sound. Double-click and it switches to full-screen.
It seems to honour copy-protection, like macrovision or something. I tried to capture a VHS tape to MPG with it and it didn't work. So I actually got 2 and daisy-chained them. The first one can watch the tape and regenerate a clean composite video signal. The second one can record it.
I bought a TV tuner card from ATI about 5 years ago. It came with a free listings service which I use to this day. Basically a DVR service that's not subscription based.
I had to schedule my own delete script to find the oldest non-read-only mpg file on the drive whenever the free space falls below a threshold.
All's well except it runs on Windoze, so the TV server has to be rebooted from time to time.
You are one artist with one painting. A more correct analogy would have 90% of all artists' work is in the hands of a handful of greedy suits who control the whole world's privilege of looking at art, and never allow any pictures of any of it.
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I like the touchless alternatives better, like RFID dongles, or how about retina scanning?
You always have the right to have those (and any other) songs in Canada. For your own use and as long as you don't redistribute them.
All Canadians have already been tried, found guilty and sentenced for copyright infringement. We've been paying a levy on blank CDs and tapes for years, thanks to CRIA. They've also tried to impose their levy scheme on ISP fees and DVDs and more, but thankfully failed. Anyway, CRIA drew first blood, but we have the right to download as much as we want.
Their latest antics just prove they want to have their cake and eat ours too. Screw em.
http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml
(pdf) http://www.cpcc.ca/english/pdf/interimDecision2005 .pdf
It has a preview pane, can click-to-schedule for watching or recording, slices and dices program info like a data mart, etc. The app logs itself in to Gemstar, so the user doesn't have to do anything beyond opening it.
I don't see the actual card on the ATI site anymore, but there seems to be plenty of similar (but newer) ones. Mine's an All-In-Wonder Radeon from about 4 or 5 years ago.
The Multimedia Center includes DVD/CD/File players. The TV app schedules recording, file playing, watching.
So cool: It can scan all available channels and show them all on-screen in a mosaic of postage-stamp sized captured frames updating continuously. (patented by ATI, I think). Click on one once and it comes to life in place, playing that channel live with sound. Double-click and it switches to full-screen.
It seems to honour copy-protection, like macrovision or something. I tried to capture a VHS tape to MPG with it and it didn't work. So I actually got 2 and daisy-chained them. The first one can watch the tape and regenerate a clean composite video signal. The second one can record it.
I had to schedule my own delete script to find the oldest non-read-only mpg file on the drive whenever the free space falls below a threshold.
All's well except it runs on Windoze, so the TV server has to be rebooted from time to time.
"...Press 1 to try me at home, Press 2 to try my cell, ..., Press 5 to leave me a message..."
Seems telemarketers don't even bother to press one digit. I get no annoing calls or messages this way.
"...if you represent a market research organization, please dial 4..."
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Aster isk+Telemarketer+Torture
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You are one artist with one painting. A more correct analogy would have 90% of all artists' work is in the hands of a handful of greedy suits who control the whole world's privilege of looking at art, and never allow any pictures of any of it.